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With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.

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We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

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There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven.

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Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this spirit in man that urges him for ever to depart from happiness and security, to toil, to place himself in danger, to risk an even a reasonable certainty of death? It dawned upon me that there in the moon as a thing I ought always to have known, that man is not made to go about safe and comfortable and well fed and amused. ... against his interest, against his happiness, he is constantly being driven to do unreasonable things. Some force not himself impels him, and he must go.

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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

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The new century will see changes that will dwarf those of the last.

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Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.

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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

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I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing, I see everincreasing possibilities before life, and I see no limits set to it all. Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend them, swim in expectation.

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It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin

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If you do not want to explore an egoism you should not read autobiography.

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Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and suppressed sexuality into religious emotion.

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While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

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The world needs something stronger than any possible rebellion against its peace. In other words it needs a federal world government embodying a new conception of human life as one whole.

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Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

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Since the passing of Victoria the Great there had been an accumulating uneasiness in the national life. It was as if some compact and dignified paper-weight had been lifted from people's ideas, and as if at once they had begun to blow about anyhow.

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A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps. He has given up his life to his temple and his god. This is a very excellent thing for the internal vigour of his own priesthood, his own temple. He lives and dies for the honour of his particular god. But in the next town or village is another temple with another god. It is his constant preoccupation to keep his people from that god. Religious cults and priesthoods are sectarian by nature; they will convert, they will overcome, but they will never coalesce.

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Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.

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